About BOBCATSSS
BOBCATSSS is an annual symposium organised by students at a number of universities in Europe. It takes place under the auspieces of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) and deals with themes from library and information science. Every year it is organised, managed and filled with content by students from an Eastern and Western European university. The universities have in common that they educate in the field of library and information sciences.
Target groups of the BOBCATSSS-Symposiums are information specialists, students, professors in the field of library and information education and research and employees of libraries and information departments. BOBCATSSS is a European meeting-place between the professionals of tomorrow and today’s researchers and teachers.
The name BOBCATSSS is an acronym and describes the university network. The letters stand for the first letters of the cities of the universities that initiated the BOBCATSSS symposium in 1993: Budapest, Oslo, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Tampere, Stuttgart, Szombathely and Sheffield. During the last years further members from Borĺs, Riga, Kharkiv, Moscow, Tallinn, Toru, Warsaw, Sofia, Ljubljana, Krakow, Bratislava, Prague, Osjiek, Zadar, Berlin and Potsdam have joined the network.
It's unique that teams of students plan and realise both the content and the management of the symposium as a part of their studies. The students are responsible for every aspect of arranging the conference, from marketing and financing to logistics and abstract and paper management. Due to this they profit a lot by border crossing teamwork with other European countries.
The BOBCATSSS 2009 symposium is organised by students from the University of Tampere, Finland (Department of Information Studies) and the University of Porto, Portugal.
Symposiums
| Year | Details | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Host city: | Porto, Portugal |
| Topic: | Challenges for the new information professional | |
| Organisation: | University of Tampere, Finland and University of Porto, Portugal | |
| 2008 | Host city: | Zadar, Croatia |
| Topic: | Providing access to information for everyone | |
| Organisation: | Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, University of Osijek, Croatia, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany, University of Zadar, Croatia | |
| Link: | http://www.bobcatsss2008.org/ | |
| Papers: | Edoc-server of the Humboldt-University Berlin | |
| Posters: | Programme pages | |
| Photos: | Flickr | |
| 2007 | Host city: | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Topic: | Marketing of Information Services | |
| Organisation: | Charles University, Czech Republic, Media University Stuttgart, Germany and University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Germany | |
| Link: | http://www.bobcatsss.org/ | |
| 2006 | Host city: | Tallinn, Estonia |
| Topic: | Information, Innovation, Responsibility: Information professional in the Network Society | |
| Organisation: | Tallinn University, Estonia and Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark | |
| Link: | http://www.tlu.ee/konverents/2006bobcatsss/ | |
| 2005 | Host city: | Budapest, Hungary |
| Topic: | Librarianship in the information age | |
| Organisation: | Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Oslo University College, Norway | |
| 2004 | Host city: | Riga, Latvia |
| Topic: | Library and Information in Multicultural Societies | |
| Organisation: | University College of Borĺs, Sweden and University of Latvia | |
| Link: | http://medlem.spray.se/bobcatsss/ | |
| 2003 | Host city: | Torun, Poland |
| Topic: | Information Policy and the European Union | |
| Organisation: | Universitas Nicolai Copernici Torun, Poland and Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2002 | Host city: | Portoroz, Slovenia |
| Topic: | Hum@n Beings and Information Specialists. Future Skills, Qualifications, Positioning | |
| Organisation: | Filozofska fakulteta - Oddelek za bibliotekarstvo Ljubljana, Slovenia and University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, Germany | |
| 2001 | Host city: | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Topic: | Knowledge, Information and Democracy in the Open Society: the Role of the Library and Information Sector | |
| Organisation: | Oslo University College JBI Faculty, Norway and Vilnius University, Lithuania | |
| Link: | http://www.stud.hio.no/~bobcats/index.html | |
| 2000 | Host city: | Krakow, Poland |
| Topic: | Intellectual Property versus The Right to Knowledge? | |
| Organisation: | Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark | |
| 1999 | Host city: | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Topic: | Learning Society - Learning Organisation - Lifelong Learning | |
| Organisation: | University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, Germany, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany and University of Bratislava, Slovakia | |
| 1998 | Host city: | Budapest, Hungary |
| Topic: | Shaping the Knowledge Society | |
| Organisation: | Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark | |
| 1997 | Host city: | Budapest, Hungary |
| Topic: | New Book Economy / International Symposium Marketing and Developing New Information Products and Services in Europe | |
| Organisation: | Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Link: | http://bobcatsss.meulie.net/97/ | |
| 1996 | Host city: | Budapest, Hungary |
| Topic: | Quality of Information Services | |
| Organisation: | Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Link: | http://bobcatsss.meulie.net/96/ | |
| 1995 | Host city: | Budapest, Hungary |
| Topic: | Marketing and Development of New Information Products and Services in Europe | |
| Organisation: | Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 1994 | Host city: | Budapest, Hungary |
| Topic: | The Future of Librarianship | |
| Organisation: | Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 1993 | Host city: | Budapest, Hungary |
| Topic: | The Role of Libraries Today, Tomorrow and Beyond | |
| Organisation: | Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands |
